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Software-Defined WAN

Use SD-WAN capabilities to deploy branches more quickly and deliver a great user experience.

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Set up pervasive security policies to protect your network, data, and users.

Internet edge

The gateway to the Internet needs to be more agile and secure in the digital age.

Application policy management

Use EasyQoS for simplified and consistent application policy management.

Solution Type Guide Description
SD-WAN Deployment Cisco SD-WAN: Application-Aware Routing Deployment Guide This guide is intended to provide design and deployment guidance to deploy Application-Aware Routing on the Cisco SD-WAN solution providing Service Level Agreement (SLA) based routing for business-critical applications to optimize application performance. The guide focuses on the step-by-step procedures for defining the network characteristics requirements for an application and leveraging the calculated path liveness and quality measurement to influence the traffic path dynamically, providing the best experience for the applications at all times.
SD-WAN Design Cisco SD-WAN Design Guide In this guide, you will learn about the architecture and different aspects of the Cisco SD-WAN solution. A high-level discussion of components, on-boarding of WAN devices, controller connections, configuration templates, and policies is covered, in addition to deployment planning considerations.
SD-WAN Deployment Cisco SD-WAN: Secure Direct Cloud Access for Cisco IOS-XE SD-WAN Device Deployment Guide This document provides the design and deployment of the Cisco SD-WAN security policy specific to secure Direct Cloud Access (DCA) within remote sites running IOS-XE SD-WAN WAN Edge platforms. The security features leveraged within this guide include Enterprise Firewall with Application Awareness, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) and DNS/Web-layer Security with Umbrella Integration.
SD-WAN Deployment Cisco SD-WAN: Secure Guest Access for Cisco IOS-XE SD-WAN Devices Deployment Guide This document provides the design and deployment of the Cisco SD-WAN security policy specific to secure guest access within remote sites running IOS-XE SD-WAN WAN Edge platforms. The security features leveraged within this guide include Enterprise Firewall with Application Awareness and URL Filtering (URLF).
SD-WAN Deployment Cisco SD-WAN: Secure Direct Internet Access for Cisco IOS-XE SD-WAN Devices Deployment Guide This document provides the design and deployment of the Cisco SD-WAN security policy specific to secure Direct Internet Access (DIA) within remote sites running IOS-XE SD-WAN WAN Edge platforms. The security features leveraged within this guide include Enterprise Firewall with Application Awareness, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), URL Filtering (URLF), Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) and DNS/Web-layer Security with Umbrella Integration.
SD-WAN Design Cisco SD-WAN Security Policy Design Guide for Cisco IOS-XE SD-WAN Devices This design guide focuses on the design components, considerations, working and best practices of each of the security features listed in Table 1 for IOS-XE SD-WAN WAN Edge devices. However, the document is not meant to exhaustively cover all options.
SD-WAN Deployment Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) and Cisco SD-WAN Deployment Guide This Deployment Guide document provides configuration guidance for integrating Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) and Cisco SD-WAN successfully. There are examples to show how to provision a new service with ZIA and Cisco SD-WAN using GRE or Ipsec tunnels. For Cisco SD-WAN, configurations that use feature templates through vManage and CLI are both shown. All examples in this guide presumes the reader has a basic comprehension of IP Networking.
SD-WAN Deployment Cisco SD-WAN: WAN Edge Onboarding Deployment Guide This guide is intended to provide design and deployment guidance to onboard Cisco SD-WAN WAN Edge devices into the enterprise SD-WAN Infrastructure. The guide focuses on the step-by-step procedures to configure each of the onboarding options available, along with the use cases specific to WAN Edge deployment using default pre-installed certificates or enterprise root-ca certificates. The physical or virtual WAN Edge onboard options include manual, bootstrap or the automated deployment process, which is referred to as Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for vEdge devices and Plug-and-Play (PnP) for IOS XE SD-WAN devices.
SD-WAN Deployment Cisco SD-WAN: Enabling Firewall and IPS for Compliance This document provides the design and deployment of the Cisco SD-WAN security infrastructure specific to the compliance use case within remote sites running IOS-XE SD-WAN WAN Edge platforms. The security features leveraged within this guide include Enterprise Firewall with Application Awareness and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS).
SD-WAN Deployment Cisco SD-WAN Controller Certificates and Whitelist Authorization File Deployment Guide In this guide, you will learn about the different certificate options available on the Cisco SD-WAN controller complex and how to deploy them, along with the whitelist authorization file. The guide also describes how to renew certificates, how to install certificates manually, and how to migrate to Cisco PKI certificates.
SD-WAN Deployment Cisco SD-WAN End-to-End Deployment Guide In this guide, you will learn how to deploy the Cisco SD-WAN solution from end to end. You will learn how to configure and deploy feature and device templates, how to onboard WAN Edge devices, and how to configure localized and centralized policies, QoS, and application-aware routing.
SD-WAN Deployment Cisco SD-WAN: Enabling Direct Internet Access Deployment Guide In this guide, you will learn to design and deploy direct internet access on both vEdge and SD-WAN XE platforms. The guide includes design considerations, configuration and troubleshooting steps to be adopted while deploying features such as NAT DIA route and Centralized Data Policy within your branch WAN Edge device to establish local internet exit.
SD-WAN Deployment Cisco SD-WAN: Enabling Cisco Cloud onramp for IaaS with AWS Deployment Guide In this guide, you will learn how to deploy secure network connectivity from private network campus and branch locations to one or more AWS VPCs using Cisco SD-WAN Cloud onRamp for IaaS.
SD-WAN Deployment Cisco SD-WAN: Cloud onramp for SaaS Deployment Guide In this guide, you will learn about how Cisco SD-WAN Cloud onRamp for SaaS operates and how to deploy it successfully.
SD-WAN Deployment Cisco SD-WAN: Administrator-Triggered Cluster Failover Deployment Guide This document provides design and deployment information for vManage disaster recovery. It covers the different types of disaster recovery methods and reviews the steps for configuring disaster recovery and how to perform disaster recovery at the time of network disruption. Note that the first iteration of this guide covers only one use case, the administrator-triggered failover use case for a vManage cluster.

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